Eucalyptus

Summary

Eucalyptus is a cloud computing software platform for on-premise (private) Infrastructure as a Service clouds. It uses existing infrastructure to create scalable and secure AWS-compatible cloud resources for compute, network and storage.

Node Controller (which manages the hypervisor on individual compute nodes in a cluster)

Eucalyptus works with either Xen or KVM, and can use openldap for account management.

Benefit to Fedora

Fedora can be used to build a highly available and scalable AWS-compatible compute/storage cloud.

Scope

The main challenge is in packaging a large number of Java dependencies. There is a list of direct dependencies at Eucalyptus, but it does does contain all transitive build dependencies yet. There will also be some distro integration work, but much of this is happening as part of the upstream packaging and release process.